夏帕特·古拉（莎巴特·古拉，英語：Sharbat Gula）是一個阿富汗女孩，阿富汗戰爭期間，她住在巴基斯坦的一個避難所里，著名的攝影記者史蒂夫·麥凱瑞steve McCurry）為她拍攝了這張照片。這張照片在1985年6月在國家地理雜誌上刊登後，她開始被人熟知，那個時候，她大概有12歲。事實上，古拉開始成為世界著名的女孩是在2002年初正式被定義為阿富汗女孩後。人們把這張照片和達文西的蒙娜麗莎畫像聯繫起來，有時候她也被稱為阿富汗的蒙娜麗莎。

 

 

Afghan Girl is a photograph by journalist Steve McCurry. The photograph has been likened to Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the Mona Lisa^[1][2] and has been called "the First World's Third World Mona Lisa".^[3]

The subject of the photograph was called "the Afghan Girl" by the public until she was formally identified in early 2002 as Sharbat Gula (Pashto: شربت ګله‎) (pronounced [ˈʃaɾbat]) (born ca. 1972), an Afghan woman who was living as a refugee in Pakistan during the time of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan when she was photographed. The image brought her recognition when it was featured on the cover of the June 1985 issue of National Geographic Magazine at a time when she was approximately 12 years old.

 

在1984年的納西爾巴格難民營（英語：Nasir Bagh），古拉的照片由國家地理的攝影師麥凱瑞用柯達克羅姆膠捲，尼康FM2相機和Nikkor 105mm F2.5鏡頭拍攝^[6]。預列印由地理藝術服務中心（總部設在喬治亞州的瑪麗埃塔）潤色完成。當時，古拉是在難民營內的非正規學校的學生，麥凱瑞抓住了拍攝阿富汗女人的珍貴機會，並傳神地捕捉到了她的形象。

雖然人們不知道她的名字，但是這張題為「阿富汗少女」的照片出現在了1985年6月的國家地理雜誌的封面上。她的臉用紅色的圍巾披著，她銳利的海綠色的眼睛直直地盯著照相機。這一形象成為20世紀80年代阿富汗的衝突和世界各地的難民局勢的象徵。在國家地理雜誌的歷史上，這張圖像被稱為最知名的照片。

最終，在古拉大概30歲的時候，國家地理隊在阿富汗的一個偏遠地區找到了古拉。她已經在1992年從難民營回到了她的祖國。專家利用生物識別技術確認了她最終的身份，通過照片和她本身的虹膜的精確比對，最終幾乎完全肯定她就是阿富汗女孩。她生動地回憶了當年被拍攝的情況，她只被拍到過三次：1984年的那一次，和國家地理製片人尋找她的期間拍攝的使她與麥凱瑞重逢的識別照片。可是，在2002年1月外界給她看這張照片之前，她從來都沒有見過她自己這張著名的肖像 。

The team finally located Gula, then around the age of 30, in a remote region of Afghanistan; she had returned to her native country from the refugee camp in 1992. Her identity was confirmed by John Daugman using iris recognition.^[6] She vividly recalled being photographed. She had been photographed on only three occasions: in 1984 and during the search for her when a National Geographic producer took the identifying pictures that led to the reunion with Steve McCurry. She had never seen her famous portrait before it was shown to her in January 2002.